Jonathan Greenblatt, President of the far-left thought control group, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), appeared on a podcast recently where he decried the populist direction of the Right, particularly more voices questioning U.S. support for the state of Israel. He is hoping that Sen. Ted Cruz will save the GOP and take it back in a more controllable direction similar to how things were before President Donald Trump showed up.
Greenblatt started his rant by casting Americans as uniquely racist. He said: “The antisemitism of the far-right is rooted in like uniquely American strains of bigotry, like nativism or isolationism or white supremacy. Now these may show up in other contexts but there is an almost unique American strain of bigotry rooted in these things, so those are like cords of a rope that are wound together and that rope is American antisemitism.”
He then set his sights on a familiar target, Tucker Carlson, who has been targeted for cancellation by the neocon forces still lurking within the Republican Party. Greenblatt said: “I think it’s been there for a long time, and I think the 2016 election allowed that to come into the mainstream, allowed that to emerge from the shadows right here and now… Tucker Carlson has been bad for years. We’ve been talking about it at ADL for years, but now that he is in this podcast-enabled world where there are no more guardrails, he can show up as his true self.”
Greenblatt bemoaned the new media atmosphere and the lack of gatekeepers being able to police public opinion. He said: “They see all the problems centered on one group of people, and they seem to only be Jews so the right-wing, far-right antisemitism has exploded… Without the editorial constraints, without the ombudsman, without the concern from the Fox News legal department about the liability he might create… he shifts over to his podcast on X where anything goes where there are no more constraints… The Jeffrey Epstein stuff plays into it, a lot of the MAGA folks believe it. There is a kind of conspiracism that creates a toxic stew… Aided and abetted by social media, populism and conspiracism have kind of been mainstreamed in ways that are new and novel, and now some of the loudest voices who engage in this kind of anti-elitism, they look for someone to blame and it is the Jew.”
Greenblatt also pointed to a recent exchange between Vice President J.D. Vance and students at Ole Miss University who questioned the state of Israel’s treatment of Christians. He said: “I worry. I mean, I think if you saw there was a thing a few weeks ago about when JD Vance was at Ole Miss and he got asked a question about the state of Israel. I didn’t like the way the way the Vice President answered the question, but what is more saliant is the young man who asked it… The whooping and the cheering that happened as he asked this crazy question about Israel persecuting Christians. It was terrifying. Again, not just what he said but the response. This was at Ole Miss. This was not the Harvard Yard. This was not like the Middle East studies department at Columbia University. This was Ole Miss. So I thought that was alarming.”
He made it clear that he supports the anti-populist counter-insurgency within the Republican Party, led by Sen. Ted Cruz, and hopes that they are able to take the GOP back to the good ol’ days of Bush-ism. Greenblatt said: “Here is the good news… You have seen very responsible voices on the right push back from Ted Cruz to Lindsey Graham to a zillion other people… Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, just did a big interview where he said that we have got to deal with this antisemitism. So I think folks on the Right see this is happening, and it is like a battle for the soul of the Republican Party and will it yield to these forces of populism, conspiracism and toxicity or will it again revert back to the kind of principled conservatism or movement conservatism that has characterized this part of our political discourse from Goldwater and Buckley to Reagan to today. So I think Tucker Carlson has antecedents like the John Birch Society and the KKK and Father Couglin, and there are people again like Buckley and Reagan and by the way George W. Bush who said no way, and I hope those forces win this battle right now, and that voices like Ted Cruz and others prevail. We need them to.”
The Trump administration recently booted all ADL influence from the federal government because they were training personnel to see white people, Christians, Trump supporters and conservatives as potential terrorist threats. It is no surprise that Ted Cruz is a favorite of theirs as Cruz is preparing a presidential run in 2028 to erase MAGA from the Party.
